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Zacryon

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  • Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it's a win-win.

    This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.

    The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.

  • AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

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  • It's nice how AI datacenters step by step swallow virtually all available hardware resources to provide digital services to users who won't be able to use those services due to the lack of available hardware.

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  • if anything the defamation was coming from emopunker, declaring people upvoting the thread [...] as 'the same person'

    Fair point.

    I am on the fence about the 'snark comm' ordeal. I think such communities are – to some degree – meaningful for a critical discourse. Imo, one should be allowed to point out and criticise users, communities, whole instances.

    Then again, this should not make someone a target for harassment.

    From my pov, it's a question of balancing interests here: civilised criticism is important and should be allowed. Especially in such public spaces. Denying this due to a hazard of making them a target for people who see this as a 'call to action' would suffocate such discussions completely. So I'd address the harassers and sanction them, instead of people who merely point things out they find suspicious, as in this case.

    So unless Emopunker directly incited the harassment or did it themselves, I'd lean towards: "yeah, somewhat uncool to throw such accusations in the room without further proof, but that doesn't make them the culprit".

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  • Basing this on a temporal chain of events alone is weak. I'll give you, that there might be a connection: names listed -> harassment started.

    That does not mean that Emopunker is responsible though. Could have been another user. Could have been you for all I know. Could also have happened for other reasons. And, there is still the possibility that it might have no connection to this at all.

    You'll need to provide some stronger evidence, otherwise I'll take this as baseless accusations and, possibly, a defamation attempt.

    Feel free to deliver, especially since you seem to be observing this. I'd like to know whether an admin on the instance I am using is harassing people.

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  • I followed your link. It shows a comment you made, yet with another link to a comment by Emopunker@feddit.org. And you claim that they harass people. The comment by Emopunker shows a screenshot where three usernames are listed that share similarities. Emopunker says that they have the suspicion that the shown users are the same person with alt accounts.

    In conclusion: I wonder whether you forgot to attach some context, because based on this alone I don't see anything that support your claims.

  • Some programs really teach you to save regularly

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  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Why I gave up electronics club

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  • Doesn't matter in a lot of cases. Just state the flow direction and convention once and then stick with it.

  • What kind of job can you never imagine yourself doing?

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  • What is it you are paid to do?

  • What have scientists discovered very recently that most people should absolutely know ?

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  • Thank you for your point of view. Since I have shared the article a lot of tibes myself, it's nice to take another perspective on it.

    I haven't dived very deep into the research, but from what I have gathered the research did focus on beverages. Whether the alcohol content of a alcohol-free beer also falls into this category and therefore alcohol content in apples must be considered as well, was not conclusive to me. Sure, if fruits reach alcohol levels of average alcoholic beverages I suppose it's safe to label them as problematic as well. But until then I'd like to avoid reading too much into the research, until it has been clarified whether this really does apply to alcohol levels like in fruits as well.

  • What have scientists discovered very recently that most people should absolutely know ?

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  • The WHO did a meta analysis, which is how they came to their conclusion.

    The title "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health" is slightly misleading though, since they focused on typical alcoholic beverages. There is no statement about alcohol in fruits.

    Bottom line:Drinking even a little bit of

    <alcoholic beverage>

    safe? Likely no.Eating

    <fruit that contain low amounts of alcohol>

    : unknown

  • Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

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  • To be fair, capitalism is inherently incompatible with advancements in robotics and AI. Doesn't mean the technology is destroying the economics and society. The socio-economic system was already broken to begin with.

  • ML research

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  • Depending on the application case and benchmark, being 0.1 to 0.3 % better than other SOTA approaches can still be statistically highly significant. Even though such a number does notmlook like much, it can mean a large leap forward in practise.

    Anyway, I wouod add a machine learning paper type that was written by an LLM and nobody cared to call that out in the peer review.

  • I love science

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  • Do what fills your heart and belly.

  • How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very

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  • Having had numerous discussions on different protests and pondering about what the most effective form of protest is, I find this article a nice addition in the endeavour of answering exactly that. So thanks for sharing. It's interesting to see, that peaceful protests have been more effective in the considered cases. However, I am under the impression that a final judgement is still not possible. According to what I have gathered so far even more violent protests may be shown to be effective. A classic, prominent example are suffragettes and their bombings, arsony, destruction of property etc.. How effective protect can become and the level of acceptance within the population seems to depend highly on further cultural and/or societal contexts as well. For instance, one could argue that suffragettes had more leverage due to the immense efforts and losses during WWI, which inevitably made the societal backbone more dependent on women. It's important to note, however, that suffragettes were a long running movement that has started to shape public discussion far earlier than WWI and it would not be accurate to reduce their achievements to their more violent protests alone. More precisely, it is debatable whether violence even was a positively contributing factor at all. At the very least, it can be argued that suffragettes were successfull despite these violent acts.

    Another important factor seems to be how directly actionable the goals of the respective movements are. Combining with that, also how much of behavioural change is asked of the people in general. For example, protesting against violent police actions shifts the focus away from the general public and shapes the state as the responsible actor while climate protests may demand significant changes of each individual (in addition to policy changes). Furthermore, in this example, protesting for a change in the education and regulation of policeforces appears to have less requirements while counteracting climate change is much more demanding as it comes with significantly more challenges.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • but enough for that answer to be valid

    Highly arguable. Especially without specifications on the lamp. It could be a rather dim and small one. Then, you either need special equipment or supersenses.

  • G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you

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  • Apart from games, where this can also be used for more capabable and behaviourally more "interesting" NPCs (including computer opponents or teammates), the used techniques can be transferred to robotics. Quite a cool architecture.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • "Kill switch" is a bit dramatic. It's an on or off toggle. Would be funny though to call every toggle a kill switch. "Yeah, using the kill switch on GPU acceleration may help with rendering on some systems."

    "Use the kill switch for preventing Firefox of starting a new session without restoring the old tabs."

    "Kill all of your browser data upon exiting Firefox by enabling the kill switch."

    "Make Firefox your default browser by enabling the 'set as default browser kill switch'."

    Extended to other UI interaction classes: "You don't like English? Kill it by using the battle royale language selector to choose only the one language you like."

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • I do as long as it stays open source.

  • xkcd #3182: Telescope Types

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